TRYOUT – MIDTEST B2
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1. Complete the table by changing the voice.
No Active Voice Passive Voice
1 The public hates a manipulative actor
2 The plan has been rejected by the
committee
3 My mom always prepares us dinner
4 The governor has called for a meeting
5 I have been forgotten by my friends
6 We took a cab last night
2. Answer the question with correct conditional sentence
what do you get if you do lots of good things
what will you do if a person doesn’t trust you anymore
what would you do if you were someone with a lot of power to change the country
3. Read the text and give your opinion about a sport fanatic.
Sports fanatics. Die-hards. The kind of people who miss important occasions for games or shell
out loads of money on their favorite teams. We all know someone who fits the description.
Many of those folks just have a harmless fascination with sports, which are often seen as an
escape from some of the more consequential problems of the world. But a small segment of
those most obsessed can display compulsive, potentially harmful behavior, in relation to their
favorite teams. That's according to new research from experts at Oregon State University.
"These results indicate that for a small segment of fans, it may be more accurate to say that they
are not consuming sport, but sport is consuming them," Colleen Bee, a business professor at the
university and one of the lead authors of the research.
Bee's findings, co-authored with researchers at California State University, Chico and University
of Massachusetts Amherst, were recently published in the Journal of Business Research. The
team interviewed 62 "extreme" fans, either self-identified or described as such by those close to
them. The subjects, who ranged in age from 18 to 74, were roughly 75 percent male and spent
an average of 24 hours a week watching games, reading about their teams or discussing sports.
Researchers also interviewed numerous spouses and family members of the sports-obsessed
subjects,"Sports participation is great. Consuming sports as a fan has benefits - giving people
meaning in their lives and connecting them through a shared experience," Bee said. "But we also
need to consider if there are harmful effects for some individuals."
One man skipped his sister's wedding, which he was supposed to be in, so he wouldn't miss a
game. One woman blamed her divorce on her husband's infatuation with sports. "We found
harmful effects of compulsive sports consumption: impacts on relationships with family, friends
or coworkers; sacrificing eating or sleeping; skipping work or family events; and considerable
investments of time and money," Bee said.
4. From the text in number 3, please rewrite 3 gerunds.
5. Read the text below.
Jenny: Hi, Rose. How was the party?
Rose: I would have gone to the party if it hadn’t rained.
Jenny: Oh, sorry. I think you went to the party.
Rose: It’s okay. Anyway, you said that you bought a new earphone. How is it?
Jenny: It’s good. But right after I bought the new one, I found my old earphone in my pencil
case!
Rose: Really? So, you have two earphones right now.
Jenny: Yes. I wouldn’t have bought a new earphone if I had found the old one earlier.
Which conditional sentence that Rose used in the dialogue?
Write what really happened to Rose and Jenny based on their dialogue.
